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NEW DELHI: BJP today alleged the Congress-led government was trying to shield Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the case of missing coal block allocation files and insisted that soft copies of the documents be shared with CBI. Though the main Opposition exercised discretion inside Parliament and only demanded that Singh, who held the coal portfolio from 2006-09, explain to the House how the files had gone missing, it charged outside that...

AHMEDABAD: Aam Aadmi Party's national executive member Prashant Bhushan today slammed the Gujarat government for allegedly shielding absconding senior IPS officer P P Pandey named as an accused in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter killing case by CBI. "Gujarat's Additional Director General of Police, the state's second seniormost police official, is absconding for four months in a fake encounter case and the state government has not initiated any disciplinary...

The Indian rupee's exchange rate is being strongly influenced, if not determined, by rupee trade in Singapore and Dubai. The government is seized of the matter, even if a little late in the day. There are two ways of dealing with the problem. One is for a sovereign agency or an agency acting on behalf of the sovereign to operate in the Dubai and Singapore markets, to counter one-sided bets against the rupee. The other is to deepen and broaden the currency market in India, so as to make it more liquid and efficient, so that any other trading in the currency becomes redundant.

NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: The government will soon set up two regulatory agencies for coordinating all telecom security-related initiatives to shield India's telephone networks from possible cyber attacks, according to an internal communication of the telecom department. The Telecom Commission, the highest decision-making body in the communications ministry, is slated to clear the formation of the Telecom Security Directorate (TSD) and the National Telecom Network Security Coordination Board (NTNSCB)

LONDON": Scientists are developing a Star Trek-style magnetic space shield that could be used to protect astronauts from harmful radiation given off by the Sun. Researchers believe the lightweight system being developed at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, Oxfordshire, could potentially be used on NASA missions to Mars or the Moon. Cosmic rays and high-energy storms given off by the Sun -- sometimes equivalent to a year's worth of radiation on Earth -- have been a constant worry to space scientists.

NEW DELHI: India's missile defence system is set to get a big boost as it is developing capability to intercept enemy missiles fired from a distance of up to 5,000km, in effect tackling any possible threat from countries such as China . The capability is being developed by DRDO as part of the Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) shield, whose first phase is ready for deployment possibly in Delhi. Development of the first phase of the BMD programme has been completed, DRDO chief Avinash Chander told PTI in an interview.

WASHINGTON: Lighter materials like plastic can effectively shield astronauts from radiation hazards faced during extended space travel, according to new analysis of data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The finding could help reduce health risks to humans on future missions into deep space, say space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). Aluminum has always been the primary material in spacecraft construction, but it provides relatively little protection against high-energy cosmic rays and can add so much mass to spacecraft that they become cost-prohibitive to launch.

The IPL match fixing scandal has claimed an unlikely victim on Dalal Street. News about the involvement of GurunathMeiyappan has pulled down the India Cements stock by almost 23%. The Ranbaxy scrip too is in trouble because of the actions of its management. The stock fell 20% after news of the $500 million ( Rs 2,700 crore ) fine slapped on the company by the US authorities for falsifying drug data. These aren't isolated examples. In recent years, scores of stocks have destroyed thousands of crores of investor wealth after promoters or senior managers came under the scanner.

CARDIFF: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today received the ICC Shield for finishing as the No. 1 ODI team in the Championship table on the April 1, 2013 cut-off date. In a simple ceremony at the Swalec Stadium here, former ICC president David Morgan presented Dhoni a silver salver and a cheque for USD 175,000. The brief ceremony took place a few metres away from where the Indians were training ahead of tomorrow's warm-up match against Australia here. Cheered by a couple of players and members of the team management, Dhoni looked happy to receive the award from the former ICC boss.